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Easton's Bible Dictionary
(no entry)
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
(no entry)
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(FROM ADULLAM)
(justice of the people)
(1) Apocrypha ODOLLAM, a city of Judah in the lowland of the Shefelah, ( Joshua
15:35 ) the seat of a Canaanite king, ( Joshua
12:15 ) and evidently a place of great antiquity. ( Genesis
38:1 , 38:12
, 38:20
) Fortified by Rehoboam, ( 2
Chronicles 11:7 ) it was one of the towns reoccupied by the Jews after their
return from Babylon, ( Nehemiah
11:30 ) and still a city in the time of the Macabees.
(2) 2 Maccabees 12:38 Adullam was probably near Deir Dubban , five
or six miles north of Eleutheropolis. The limestone cliffs of the whole of that
locality are pierced with extensive excavations, some one of which is doubtless
the "cave of Adullam," the refuge of David. ( 1
Samuel 22:1 ; 2
Samuel 23:13 ; 1
Chronicles 11:15 )
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
o-dol'-am (Odollam):
The Greek form of ADULLAM (which see), found only in 2
Maccabees 12:38.
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